Cal Newport
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Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity. He has written the blog Study Hacks since 2007 and…
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36 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Chatbots impair cognitive performance and persistence almost immediately, unlike the slower effects of earlier technologies such as smartphones (opens korrents.com)
“We're accustomed to slow-moving techno-cognition trends such as the negative effects of ubiquitous smartphone usage, which took years to emerge in the data. With chatbots, the negative impact is immediate.”
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A life without serious, sustained, intentional thought is impoverished (opens korrents.com)
“A key theme of my work in the technology critic space is that a life without serious, sustained, intentional thought is impoverished.”
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There is reason to worry that OpenAI and Anthropic are becoming increasingly reckless because they believe collateral damage is justified in a race to redeem humanity. (opens korrents.com)
“I'm increasingly concerned that OpenAI and Anthropic, in particular, are becoming increasingly reckless because they believe collateral damage is justified in a race to redeem humanity.”
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Chatbots impair cognitive performance and persistence almost immediately, unlike the slower effects of earlier technologies such as smartphones (opens korrents.com)
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15 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Loop (opens rcmnd.app)
“Science journalist Jacob Ward warns about a future in which AI technology forms a tight cybernetic feedback loop with the biases ingrained into the human brain, pushing our day-to-day existence in frightening…”
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Of Mice and Men (opens rcmnd.app)
“Steinbeck deploys a standard third person omniscient narrative style that avoids all the flash of the modernists, and then postmodernists, that soon after took over the literary scene. But in his hands, it's enough. I…”
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Cathedral of the Wild (opens rcmnd.app)
“I picked up this book after hearing Varty's recent appearance on Tim Ferriss's podcast and I wasn't disappointed.”
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The Loop (opens rcmnd.app)